Thursday, July 20, 2017

Autopoints and Auto . . . openers?

I had one of those ridiculous moments at the Chicago Pen Show this year, when I was sitting in a ballroom filled with enough writing instruments to satisfy my every whim . . . when a notification came through on my phone, and I was instinctively sucked into checking out what was going on on eBay. There, in the middle of the show, I placed an order from an online seller for this one:

Nice color, sharp looking yellow trim bands . . . and a goofy taper flattened out to work as an envelope opener, I suppose. On the barrel there’s a nice, crisp Autopoint imprint in addition to the advertising for Klempner Brothers:

I bemoaned in that last article the absence of any Autopoint catalog references I knew about which documented the existence of a desk pencil, but the fact that both of these are clipless is as clear an indication as I need that these two are the real deal, and not just something pieced together. Besides, I haven’t seen an envelope taper quite like this one anywhere else: